Today is the publication date of Stephen Colbert’s latest book, which he first announced during his interview with Sendak this last winter. The timing of Sendak’s death begs the question, “Is Stephen Colbert responsible for the death of Maurice Sendak?”

djw, I saw a Sendak exhibit in Philly years ago, probably the same one–it was old family photographs, and seriously his aunts and uncles looked exactly like the Wild Things–square widely-spaced teeth, huge mouths, squat bodies, and so on. I don’t think the diet and lifestyle of the late 19th C in deep rural peasant Eastern Europe was conducive to svelte healthyness, to forgive them. But if they were also horrible people, well. . . .